Song: Tears, Idle Tears

Explore how the poet portrays the speaker’s feeling of nostalgia.

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Friend - Hone Tuwhare

Explore how the poet conveys the loss of childhood innocence in “Friend”.

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Meeting at Night - ROBERT BROWNING

Explore how the poet conveys the persona’s thoughts and feelings during the journey in the
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The Trees are Down - CHARLOTTE MEW

Explore the ways in which Charlotte Mew in The Trees Are Down uses the beauty and
magnificence of nature to make a comment on human behaviour.

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Praise Song for My Mother - Grace Nichols

Explore how the poet portrays the significance of her mother in the poem.

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Cold In The Earth - Emily Brontë

Explore the ways in which Bronte memorably conveys feelings about a lost love in Cold in the
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The Trees - Philip Larkin

Explore how Larkin vividly uses imagery to portray his themes.

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Because I could not stop for Death - Emily Dickinson

Explore how the poet portrays the speaker’s attitude towards death.

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Reservist - Boey Kim Cheng

Explore how Reservist vividly expresses the poet’s attitude towards the military service
described in the poem.

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Elegy for My Father’s Father - James K. Baxter

Explore how the poet vividly portrays the grandfather in the poem.

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My Parents - Stephen Spender

Explore the ways in which the writer presents the childhood experience in the poem.

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One Art ELIZABETH BISHOP

Explore the ways the poet explores loss in the poem One Art.

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Attack - Siegfried Sassoon

Explore the ways in which Sassoon’s poem powerfully laments the futility of war.

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For Heidi with Blue Hair Fleur Adcock

Explore how the poet explores the conflict between Heidi and the school.

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Anthem for Doomed Youth BY WILFRED OWEN

Explore how Wilfred Owen conveys the brutality of war.

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